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Population Greater Kings Mountain 10,320 City Limits 7,206 Th« figure for Greater Kings Mountain is derived from the 1955 Kings Mountain city directory census. The city Limits figure is from the United States census of 1950. VOL 69 No. 36 Established 1889 Kings Mountain, N. C., Thursday, September 4, 1958 Sixty-Ninth Year PRICE TEN CENTS Off-To-College list Totals 132 Local News Bulletins PRESBYTERIAN Dr. J. N. Brown, associate minister of Gastonia’s First Presbyterian church, will fill the pulpit Sunday morning at First Presbyterian church. DIXON SERVICE Rev. Trent Howell, Jr., pas tor of Grover’s Shiloh Presby terian church, will assume du ties Sunday as supply pastor at Dixon Presbyterian church. The morning service is at 9:15 a. m. TO REIDSVILLE Harold D. Pearson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oland Pearson, left Sunday for Reidsville, where he is a member of the Reids ville high school faculty, tea ching English, social studies and civics. HOSPITALIZED Max Hamrick, county audi tor, is a patient at Cleveland Memorial hospital in Shelby, where he is suffering from a respiratory ailment. CAKE SALE The Intermediate Depart ment of Central Methodist church will sell homemade cakes at Fite’s Shoe Repair Ser vice Saturday morning from 9 until 11 a. m. METER RECEIPTS Parking meter receipts for the week ending Wednesday at noon were $138.05, City Clerk Joe McDaniel reported. Included was $119.67 from on street meters and $18.38 from off-street meters. LIONS PROGRAM Musa Marto, Arab native of Bethlehem and a chemist at Lithium Corporation of Ameri ca, will address members of the Lions club Tuesday night, at the meeting at the Wo man’s Club at 7 o’clock. Mr. Marto lived for many years in Jerusalem. SOCK DANCE Kings Mountain high school’s FHA chapter will sponsor a sock dance Friday night in the high school gym nasium immediately following the football game. Admission is 15 and 25 cents. Free re freshments will be served. PERMIT ISSUED Building Inspector J. W. Webster issued a permit last week to F. V. Webster to build a four-room residence for Hor ace Ross at an estimated cost of $5500. TO DECATUR Rev. and Mrs. P. D. Patrick are moving Thursday to Deca tur, Ga., where Mr. Patrick is assuming duties as field rep resentative for Columbia Sem nary. The Patricks are resid ing at 922 Derrydown Way. GARDEN COUNCIL Kings Mountain Garden Council and flower show chairmen will meet Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Woman’s club, Mrs. Henry Neisler, president has announ ced. LOST POCKETBOOK Mrs. Joyce Whetstine is seeking the addresses of the two boys who picked up her pocketbook at Norman’s Fruit Stand last Friday. The find ers may keep all contents of the purse except the personal papers she would like return ed. Her telephone number is 519-W. Morrow Youngster Sustains Burns Jerry Morrow, 18-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morrow, sustained serious burns Saturday when he knocked a pot of hot coffee on himself. The child’s condition was re ported improving Wednesday by his grandmother, Mrs. E. B. Cooke, who said the baby had required medical attention daily for the burns. Dr. John C. McGill, the attending physi cian, told the parents the youngster, one of twins, was very much improved. UNC And State To Get Largest Delegations The Kings Mountain area will j send 132 students to colleges, prep schools, and specialized training centers this fall. Included in the large number of students enrolling for post high school training are 15 who are enrolling at the University of 1 North Carolina, 10 at North Car olina State college, and eight each at Gardner Webb and Len oir Rhyne colleges. The Herald annually seeks to list all the Kings Mountain area students enrolling in col leges and uhiversities for post high school training. Recog nizing the possibility of omis sions, the Herald invites any student whose name may have been omitted from the list to notify the Herald. Numerous students are enroll ing in schools and colleges for specialized training leading to nursing degrees, courses in bus iness administration, and work as laboratory technicians and secretaries. Area students and the schools they attend are as follows: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAR OLINA — Harold Jackson, Steve Kesler, Flem Mauney, Mike Houser, Jackie Arnette, Wal ter Griffin, Linda Biser, Tom Baker, Clyde Cobb, Delvin Huffstetler, Jessie Putnam, George Hord, Jr., Jack Lazarus, Jimmy Heavner, and Peggy Harry. N. C. STATE — Ben Hudson, Johnny Kiser, Jerry Wilson, Wayne Mayhue, Charles Allen, Dale Gilliland, Earl Marlowe, Glenn Grigg, Buddy Conner, and John Seism. WOMAN'S COLLEGE — Jeanne Plonk, Peggy Joyce Reynolds, Diane Cansler, Marjorie White, and Margaret Hambright. APPALACHIAN STATE TEACH ERS COLLEGE—Sara Mae Ham; rick, Janice Moore, Martha Ba ker, Nancy Bell, Bud Mayes, Jean Hicks and Ronnie Lay ton, and Tommy Boyd. WESTERN CAROLINA COLLEGE — Bud Falls, Eddie Goforth, Roger Blackwell and DeWitt Blanton. DUKE UNIVERSITY — Cobie Go forth, George Harris. GARDNER-WEBB — Fairylee Davis, Richard Spencer, Dean Bridges, Bill Green, Solon Moss, Mary Childers, Louise Owens and Becky Harris. LENOIR RHYNE — Anita Mc Ginnis, John McGinnis, Bill Mitchem, Donna Cheatham, Judy Cooper, Benjie Moomaw, Charles Yelton, and Robert Neisler. BREVARD COLLEGE — Billy Bumgardner, Jeanette Shiver, Andy Howard, and Elmer Nor wood. ERSKINE COLLEGE — Curtis George, Jerry McCarter, Shir ley Ware and Pat Owens. DAVIDSON COLLEGE — James Pressly and John VVarlick. CLEMSON COLLEGE — Vernon Carson and Douglas Wilson. UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAR OLINA — Ken Baity and John Houser. GREENSBORO COLLEGE —Jean Arthur and Phyllis Dean. WAKE FOREST COLLEGE—Pal mer Huffstetler, Mary Ann Herndon, and Butch Houser. GUILFORD COLLEGE — Norma Kay Hamrick. EASTERN CAROLINA COLLEGE — Richard George. CITADEL — Keith Layton. CONVERSE — Christine Still. WINTHROP — Martha Bridges. LIMESTONE — Sherry Kelley. BIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN, Bir mingham, Ala. — Ruth McCur dy. i AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE, Decat (Continued on Page Eight) SPEAKER — Earle J. Gluck, pio neer Charlotte radio engineer and executive, will address members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thursday night. Kiwanis Club To Hear Gluck Earle J. Gluck, Charlotte radio and television executive, will ad dress members of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club Thurs day night on “Painting with E lectrons". A pioneer Charlotte radioman, Mr. Gluck is a veteran of World Wars I and II and is a captain in the naval reserve. He will speak on a program aranged by Rev. J. B. McLarty. A Baltimore native, Mr. Gluck I attended Baltimore Polytechnic institute a'nd John Hopkins uni versity. After stints with South ern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company, Carolina States Electric Company and Southern Radio Corporation, Mr. Gluck, a navy chief radioman during World War I, became general manager of Radio Station WBT in 1927. In 1933, he organized Station WSOC Charlotte and has been associated with it since. To day he is chairman of the board ofWSOC-TV Charlotte. The club meets at the Wo man’s Club at 6:45. Rites Conducted For Mrs. Fritz Funeral rites for Mrs. Hose M. Fritz, 60, of Columbia, S. C., mo ther of Rev. R. Douglas Fritz of Kings Mountain, were held Sun day at 6 p. m. from Columbia's Ebenezer Lutheran church. Dr. Carl Honeycutt conducted the final rites, and interment was in the church cemetery. Mrs. Fritz, wife of the late Dr. C. E. Fritz, prominent Lutheran minister, succumbed Friday night at 11:55 p. m. in Columbia’s Bap tist Hospital following an illness of two months. A native of New Jersey, Mrs. Fritz was a member of Columbia's Good Shepherd Lutheran churh. Dr. Fritz died last November. Surviving in addition to the Kings Mountain minister who is pastor of Resurrection Lutheran church, are two other sons, Char les J. Fritz and Rev. W. Richhrd Fritz, both of Columbia, S. S., two daughters, Mrs. E. L. Riley, Co lumbia, Mrs. Donald Deal,, Lin colnton, and ten grandchildren. Bank Acquires Pageland Mill Palmetto Yarn Mills, Pageland, j S. C., has been acquired by Textile Banking Company of New York from Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company, according to a news re port from Pageland and pub lished in the Charlotte Observer; last week. The 7,000-spindle yam mill was j acquired by Massachusetts Mo-1 hair in 1955 when the textile firm purchased the former Neisler Mills, Inc. The Pageland news account stated that no management changes were contemplated. a Al Maino, Mohair general many ager, was in New York Wednes day and not available for corn ment on the transaction. v Stadium Seats, Gas Line Problem « On City Board Wednesday Agenda ‘ Possible addition of seate at City Stadium and problem of moving more than a mile of gas line were chief items of business to be discussed by the city board of commissioners at a meeting Wednesday night at 9 p. m. Charles T. Carpenter, Jr., mem ber of a committee investigating the stadium seating problem, was to meet with the board and was expected to present plans and cost estimates on addition of permanent bleachers. The gas line matter is a result of the State Highway and Pub lic Works commission notifying the city that it must move it^ Shelby Road gas line off high-J way right-of-way. Mayor Glee A. Bridges said^ the problem will be both majoM and expensive, but that the con tract with the highway commis sion requires the city to move the line at city expense. Other items on the Wednes- [ day night agenda were designa- j tion of a clerk of recorder’s court ‘ and employment of a policeman. Mayor Bridges said the late j meeting hour was dictated for! convenience of several members of the board. Some had planned trips out of the city. 3933 Pupils In Township Schools Four Township County Units List 1700 Pupils County schools were a day a head of the local unit in begin ning 1958-50 school terms Mon day, as for the first time, all No. 4 township schools were opera ting on non-split term basis. An increase at Bethware school of 20 elementary pupils brought the elementary total to 376. High school registration was up 10 to total 152. Plane geome try was available to seniors only and M. G. Brooks, Jr., of Shelby, was added as social studies tea cher. Grover school gained 27 ele mentary pupils to account for 430 elementary enrollees and 113 high schoolers, up five from the end of last year. Driver’s educa tion and physics are additional subjects being taught, Principal James Scruggs said. Renovation of home economics and science classrooms in the old Compact building will be gin next week, according to Prin cipal L. L. Adams. Septic tank and toilet facilities are being in stalled this week. Adequate space poses a problem with the first aid room doubling as a ty ping class room. Overflow stu dents from second and third grades are combined as are fif th and sixth grade overages. Slight enrollment increases in clude 350 elementary count, three over last year, and 101 high school number, an addition of eight. Miss E. D. Fowler is new first grade teacher. Park Grace school reports a lack-of-pupils problem with en rollment down 16 from last year to total 178. Third grade reports only 18 students while 31 fifth graders comprise the largest class. Scholarship Goal $5,000 The Plonk School of Creative Arts, of Asheville, Alumni asso ciation is inviting donations to two scholarship funds. Goal of the appeal is $5,Q00. During 1957-58, the Alumni association re-established the Loyalty Scholarship fund. Mrs. Jerry Grant, formerly Miss Nan Jean Gantt, of Kings Mountain, is the association president. The General Scholarship Fund has been supported for many years by members and relatives of the Plonk family. Dominant belief of the school, since its founding in 1924, has been that creative education is the only true education and that the influence of creative educa tion is manifested in home life, social life, the spiritual life and commercial life of any communi ty. The Plonk School is a non stock, non-profit corporation and donations to its scholarship funds are tax deductible, both at feder al and state levels. Donations should be sent to Miss Patricia James, secretary - treasurer of the Plonk School Alumni associa tion, 44 Sunset Parkway, Ashe ville, or to Miss Lillian Plonk, vice-president and treasurer of the Plonk School of Creative Arts, One Sunset Parkway, Ashe ville. The funds are used to give wor thy and talented students an op portunity for education. Bridges Resigns City Positions E. W. (Buck) Bridges last Thursday acknowledged respon sibility for mishandling 39 city The final report of the audi tors, Omar Lingerfelt and Billy Watkins, confirmed the tentative report of last week. A total of 28 cases had not been docketed, and another 11 did not have bal ancing monies in the case jack ets. Total involved was $671.65, but $170 was found in the 11 (Continued on Page Eight) LABOR DAY SAFETY DISPLAY — Pictured a bove is the safety reminder to motorists to drive safely over the Labor Day weekend which was displayed in Kings Mountain Saturday thru Monday by the highway patrol, city police, and county life saving crew. Officers distributed some 20,000 safety pamphlets to motorists and made routine checks. Patrolman R. E. Shaney said the saftey display was erected in an effort to cut down holiday accidents. Three persons were injured in highway accidents in the county, and four persons sustained injuries in a two-car wreck in the city during the Labof Eay weekend. (Photo by Perevnaton Studio! 11th Beth ware Fair To Open Wednesday; Parade Feature MISS BETHWARE FAIR — nor ma Jean Hamrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hamrick, will lead the parade Saturday, a pre liminary to Bethware Communi ty Fair which opens for a four day run Wednesday. T-V History Starts Monday History via television will be come a fact for 110 high school students on Monday morning. On Monday, the history ex perts on the educational tele vision channel will begin the school year with the first half hour lecture to begin at 9 a. n Fred Withers, of the higl school faculty, will be instructo for the course in American his tory, which will be taught in th auditorium. Mr. Withers recent! spent two weks in Chapel Hi] at a clinic on education by tele vision. ■ Lawson Brown, high schocB principal, said the school ha two 21-inch General Electrie television sets on order. If twi se ts prove insufficient, anothe will be purchased, he added. The history lecture will bi televised over Channel 3, WBT TV Charlotte. Mr. Brown invited parents tc tune in Monday morning tc Channel 3 to observe the teach ing methods. The hour class convenes at 8:30. I L. E. Hinnant To loin Bank Lawrence E. Hinnant, of Ral eigh, will join the staff of First National Bank on September 15, B. S. Neill, president, announced this week. Mr. Hinnant, a native of Wen dell, currently is credit manager of Ellisberg’s, Inc., Raleigh re tail firm, with which he has been associated the past seven years. Previously, Mr. Hinnant had been employed by the Bank of Wendell for two years and Secur ity National Bank of Raleigh for five years. An army veteran of World Wat IT, he attended the Wendell pub lie schools and the University o: North Carolina. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. N R. Hinnant, of Wendell. Mrs Hinnant is the former Miss Vii ginia Summers, of Kings Moun tain. Annual Even' Is Expected ft) Set Records Miss Bethvvare Fair, along with members of her court and numerous floats, will form a pa rade here Saturday as a prelim inary to the 11th annual fair which opens for a four-day run Wednesday. The parade through Kings Mountain streets will form at 4 p. m. and will include Norma Jean Hamrick, Miss Bethware Fair; Jane Hayes, runner-up in the contest; Kim Cashion, Becky Falls, Nancy Spearman, and Bet ty Jean Eaker. Floats will be fur nished by the Bethware high school senior class and the FFA, FHA, and Monogram clubs at Bethware school. Bethware Progressive club of ficials are predicting this year’s fair, 11th annual No. 4 township event, will break all previous fair records, both for attendance and for quality and quantity of exhibitions. Included in the big fair pro gram will be the tradition mid way features, rides, fireworks displays, contests, and concess ion stands, the latter under sponsorship of the Bethware sen ior class which uses proceeds to finance the annual class trip to Washington. Children’s Day will be obser ved this year on Thursday, Sep tember 11. ■ airofi commission will be held at City Hall Monday night at , 7:30, it was announced by F. R. ! McCurdy, chairman. GRADUATES — Glenda Gregory, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. John Gregory, received her diploma Sunday from Charlotte Memor ial Hospital School of Nursing. Miss Gregory Finishes Course Graduation exercises from i Charlotte Memorial Hospital School of Nursing Sunday mark- ; ed the completion of three years ; of training for Miss Glenda Gre- j gory, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. John Gregory of 808 Lin wood Road. A graduate of Kings Mountain high school, Miss Gregory plans to practice her profession at N. C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, N. C. possibly enrolling for more nurses training. Attending exercises were her mother, sister, Miss Phyllis Gre gory, Nell Moss, Mrs. Tom Gre gory, Raymond Gregory and Ger aldine Gregory. WOMAN'S CLUB Regular general meeting of Thursday night at 8 p. m. at the Woman’s club will be held the clubhouse, with members of all departments invited to attend, Mrs. Haywood Lynch, president, said. Members are reminded to bring any pattern suitable for a baza.ar item to demonstrate. Wednesday's ex ecutive meeting was postponed because of the Thursday meet ing. Employment Picture Much Brighter With Job Orders Up, Claims Down Kings Mountain’s employment report for the month ending Au gust 25 showed considerable im provement in Kings Mountain area employment and the trend is continuing, Franklin L. Ware, Jr., manager of the state employ ment service branch, said Wed nesday. Mr. Ware pointed to the fact I that his office placed 66 persons on jobs during August against or ders for 77 persons. He also noted that number of weeks of unemployment pay claims filed during August was down sharply to 2,167, down about 1,000 from the previous month. ..' The picture has still been im proving since August 25, Mr. Ware added, in several directions. Job orders are being received and short-time employees are getting fuller work weeks at several plants, Mr. Ware reported. Of the 66 placements made in August, 62 were on local jobs and four were out-of-town. City Schools First-Day Total 2233, Up 24 City schools registered 2234 pupils Tuesday, a gain of 24 over the opening day school population of the 1957 term. Only Central school showed a population drop, enrollment to taling 518. The figure was 21 less than last year’s first-day figure. Elementary pupils more than made up the difference, as 29 ad ditional students were enrolled in the white schools and 14 addi tional elementary pupils were registered at Davidson school. Davidson high school, with a reg istration of 63, was up two from last year. Elementary school registration figures Tuesday were: Central 349; East 398; North 423; West 285; and Davidson 197. This year marks the first time that the Central plant has not had :imary department. The first three grades were eliminated due to insufficient registrations in Grades 1 and 3. The stated aim of the board of education is eventu ally to use the Central plant only for junior and senior high school instruction. City Superintendent B. N. Barnes said Wednesday the open ing day schedule “worked fine” and reported a minimum of pro blems. He said there were two serious overloads, both at West school, where the 37 registrants in a third grade and 40 in a four th grade posed problems. He said the third grade overload was al ready reduced Wednesday morn ing and that effort was being made to alleviate the fourth grade overload. He announced that Mrs. David W. Smith, of Kings Mountain, had been elected teacher of Bible, on recommendatidn of the citizens committee on teaching of Bible in the schools. The election of Mrs. Smith completed the filling of faculty vacancies. Mr. Barnes also reported that the school board had granted provisionally school assignment change requests to 15 of 24 appli cants. The board of education re served the right to re-assign pu pils, if grade population condi tions demand. Mr. Barnes said that in a ma jority of the instances in which transfer applications were gran ted the application was an ac commodation to the schools, help ing to relieve overloads and to balance underloads. The assignment changes were: From East school to Central — Mary Beth Ramsey, fourth grade. From West school to North — Linda Jane Hardin, fourth grade, and Robert Stephen Hardin, third grade. From North' school to West —• Eleanor Ann Ware, fifth grade, and Thomas H. Black, sixth grade. From East school to West —• Susanne H. Amos, first grade, Charles W. Ballance, second grade, and Jake W. Early, Jr., sec ond grade. From North to Central — Joy ce C. Smith, sixth grade. From North to East — Janice Ruth Carpenter, first grade. From Central to West — Mar sha Anne Ballance, fifth grade and Sarah Frances Mauney, six th grade From Central to North — Carl Abel Hill and Stephen M. Mar lowe, both seventh graders. From West to Central — Debo rah Thornburg, fourth grade. Season Tickets Still Available Kings Mountain football fans who wish to have a seat in the stands at the Mountain eer home games will have to scramble to reserve seats with a total of 75 already sold and about 300 to go. Unless bleachers are install ed across the field from the cement stands, only an esti mated 500 seats will be avail able, leaving many fans walk ing the sidelines. Lawson Brown, high school principal, said so far they hadn’t had any encourage ment about getting any blea chers i nstalled,” but hopes something can be done about the situation. The bleachers formerly loca ted on the far side of the field, were moved to the Davidson pool recreation area. Mr. Brown reported the 300 reserve seat tickets available Wednesday and said they would be sold on a first come, first served basis. Persons wishing to obtain seats for the five Mountain eer home games should con tact Mr. Brown at Central High School, telephone 212.